For Rietveld & Sandberg students alike, the writing and publication of the thesis is a major undertaking of the last year of study (for some, already the summer before). Where does one begin? How does one end? What books did you read and where did you find them? And how does this all relate to the graduation work?

The Library Talks is a series of lectures held at the Rietveld & Sandberg library. Each talk revolves around a selection of books made by the speaker, assembled out of the library’s current collection as well as newly purchased books for the occasion.

The Library Talks is a series of lectures held at the Rietveld & Sandberg library. Each talk revolves around a selection of books made by the speaker, assembled out of the library’s current collection as well as newly purchased books for the occasion.

Coming Friday the Rietveld & Sandberg Library will host a workshop led by Chanelle Adams, in which we will engage multidisciplinary and embodied approaches to research through her work on ecocide, meditation, and ghosts.

On Monday 15th April at 18.30, Bitter tongue(s) will host our launch evening of Performance and Poetry at the Rietveld and Sandberg Library. For Session #1 We are hosting S*an D. Henry-Smith, Cleo Tsw and Noise diva.
We hope to provoke a fruitful resonance of institutional and social discourse; to question the role of politics and language(s) in our academy — but also in our imaginations. These performances are focussed on channeling voices of resistance. Snacks and drinks will be provided, the program will end at 21.00

On Tuesday, 12 March at 17.30, the Rietveld & Sandberg Library is excited to host a writing workshop led by Maxe Crandall. In this workshop, focused on experimenting with genre, we will approach and perhaps undo the conventional, the formulaic, and the cryptic toward subversive ends, with the goal of making new meaning through our array of feeling. The workshop is free and open to the public; we encourage participants to bring a writing utensil. Refreshments will be served.

The Rietveld & Sandberg Library is pleased to welcome poet, sound artist, and teacher LA Warman, who will host a poetry workshop in the Library on Tuesday, December 12 at 5pm.
Currently on a reading and teaching tour celebrating the French translation of her book Whore Foods, which received the Lamda Literary Award for Erotica in 2020, Warman will lead participants through writing exercises engaging the poetics of death and erotics.

With Edgar Fulton (Ceramics), Danute Līva (Architectural Design), Uma Naddermier (Graphic Design), Michał Dawid Sypien (Designlab), Jordi de Vetten (Photography) & Rachel Walker-Konno (Dogtime Expanded Painting).
Hosted by Lucía Vives.

You are hereby warmly invited to join us for a presentation by Anita Di Bianco & a performance by Alena Alexandrova in the library.

Thesis presentations by 2022 Sandberg alumni

IT’S THESIS TIME!
Thesis presentations by 2022 Rietveld Academie alumni

5pm at the library: THESIS FEST organized by Hala Namer and S*an D. Henry-Smith

Foul Play is back! The reading group is organized this year by Aidan Wall and Lauren Fong, starting March 15.

5PM @ Rietveld & Sandberg library + opening of Yara Said's permanent sound installation at the library

Save the date — second thesis evening of the fall semester.

The Read/Write Catalog:

theses presentations by alumni

Toni Brell (Sandberg Institute, Design Department)
César Rogers (Rietveld Academie, Graphic Design Department)
Negiste Yesside Johnson (Sandberg Institute, Dirty Art Department)

moderated by Amelia Groom

FOUL PLAY

a reading group in 5 sessions
looking critically at the roles of play and games in contemporary capitalist culture

18h

5:00 PM

Opening: Tuesday February 4, 4.30 pm
Exhibition: February 5—March 20

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5:00 PM, Room 007, Rietveld building

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The Library Talks with Textual Feelings (Matty Hemming and Rosie Haward), Tuesday October 17, 5pm

Dorine van Meel's practice is situated within and between the media of moving image, writing and installation. Through the use of diaristic and intimate analyses of personal observations and conversations, mixed with reflections on twitter feeds, news items and music videos, the work attempts to expose current structures of power, whilst at the same time considering modes of resistance.

Lotte Lara Schröder graduated from Graphic Design department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, and studied at Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem. She uses her graphic design skills to initiate projects in her artistic practice, resulting in sound installations, performances, and drawings. Her research revolves around ecological and natural phenomena such as volcanic energy and geomorphology, aiming to emphasise the more personal and poetic aspects of these predominantly scientific topics.

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Paul Haworth writes and performs. Publications include ‘Letter to Robin Kinross’, co-written with Sam de Groot, and the trilogy ‘Silk Hankerchiefs’, ‘Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere’ and ‘Jonny on a Chorizo’. Written in a mix of Cockney slang and Dickensian English, this trilogy records three years in the life of its London-based character Alex ‘Abs’ Brenchley, as he attempts to find love and start a club night.
Paul and Sam have made an album, ‘Illegal Emotions’, and he is in Amsterdam to record a new song. The in-progress-and-under-construction version of his latest novel, ‘Dramatic Society’, can be followed on his website homelovin.co.uk and he is currently developing a play, ‘Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer’, that premieres in May at Camden People’s Theatre, London.

Melanie Bonajo examines the paradoxes inherent to ideas of comfort. Through her videos, performances, photographs and installations, Bonajo studies subjects related to how technological advances and commodity-based pleasures increase feelings of alienation, removing a sense of belonging in an individual. Captivated by concepts of the divine, she explores the spiritual emptiness of her generation, examines peoples’ shifting relationship with nature and tries to understand existential questions by reflecting on our domestic situation, ideas around classification, concepts of home, gender and attitudes towards value.

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the library talks #3
abstraction and reality in the work of herman de vries

a discussion between
wjm kok
ben zegers
frank mandersloot

Starting at 5:00 PM. The discussion About Abstraction is organised in the context of the exhibition JAZZ, on display in the vitrines of the library and arranged by Ben Zegers. Visual artists WJM Kok and Ben Zegers will discuss the influence of Henri Matisse's work on the construction of ideas about abstraction, and other sources that have informed their own work.

David Senior, Bibliographer at the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York, will discuss a history of artists' publications in the 20th and 21st centuries. There will be a few different stories about how artists and designers have used their little publications as containers for new ideas, creating lively and weird spaces to communicate work and archive art actions. Most examples will come from the collection of books that he works with at MoMA and several recent exhibitions he has organized of artists' books and ephemera.
David Senior is Bibliographer at the MoMA, New York. He is the curator of exhibitions at the MoMA library such as 'Access to Tools: Publications from the Whole Earth Catalog' and 'Please Come to the Show' and his writing has been published in Dot Dot Dot, Bulletins of the Serving Library, Frieze and other publications.